#assume

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. ↗

— Robert Bork

#assumes #because #decide #disapprove #distinctions

I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#cheerleader #even #head #high #high school

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#assume #book #conduct #considered #democrat

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#hard #people #way #you

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#assume #contact #course #gives #happen

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. ↗

— Don Ellis

#assumed #audience #come #compromising #expect

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#attitude #blinders #choose #citizens #civil

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. ↗

— Helge Ingstad

#buildings #clear #fishermen #houses #indian

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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